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July 2019
Hands-on Coins
Handle historical coins from different times and places, with the help of our volunteer team.
Find out more »Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Trio Metral Recital
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D. 929 MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 Joseph Metral violin Justine Metral cello Victor Metral piano The brothers and sister of the prize-winning Trio Metral join us from France for a delectable opening to the 2019 festival, beginning their programme at the Holywell Music Room with the distinct mixture of sadness and bonhomie that characterises Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio in E flat. Balancing Schubert’s exquisite second Trio are the…
Find out more »Oxford Piano Festival: Boris Berezovsky Piano Recital
RACHMANINOV Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 CHOPIN Selection of Mazurkas RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux, Op. 16 Boris Berezovksy makes his festival debut in the first of our solo recitals. Berezovsky, the quintessential Russian pianist known for his wedding of poetry and power, opens this recital with Rachmaninov’s magnificent Piano Sonata No. 2, a work as tempestuous as it is heartfelt. After his own personal selection of Chopin’s crystalline Mazurkas, Berezovsky returns to Russia for Rachmaninov’s 6 Moments musicaux in which…
Find out more »Oxford Piano Festival: Sergei Babayan Piano Recital
HOPIN Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 Valse in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Barcarolle in F sharp minor, Op. 60 Valse in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2 Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3 Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat major, Op. 61 Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29 Prelude in A flat major, B. 86 Valse in A flat major, Op. 34 No. 1 Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op.…
Find out more »August 2019
Rhino Month
The keepers at the Park will be doing a daily talk throughout August at 2:00pm near the Rhino Paddock about these magnificent animals and the conservation work that is going on to try and protect them for future generations.
Find out more »Oxford Piano Festival: Ingrid Fliter & the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
MOZART Symphony No. 24 in B flat major, K. 182 Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 Ingrid Fliter piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Ingrid Fliter makes her festival debut in the centerpiece of this concert at the Sheldonian Theatre with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. She plays one of Mozart’s best-loved piano concertos, finished in 1786 just before the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro and sharing the opera’s airborne inspiration from first note to…
Find out more »Oxford Piano Festival: Menahem Pressler Piano Recital
Programme to be announced. ‘This pianist still illuminates whatever he touches and compels you to pay attention.’ So wrote Gramophone magazine in 2018, celebrating yet another gem of a recording from a 94-year-old pianist’s hands. Elder statesman of the piano Menahem Pressler – yearly visitor to the festival and Life President of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra – presents a recital at the Holywell Music Room. With Pressler at the keyboard, a special experience is guaranteed.
Find out more »One event on July 27, 2019 at 10:00 am
One event on July 28, 2019 at 10:00 am
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday and Saturday, repeating until August 31, 2019
Birds of Prey Demonstrations
Some birds will swoop low over your heads and some will soar high in the sky over the Park’s beautiful grounds. See a variety of different birds from eagles to owls in these exciting demonstrations by Cotswold Falconry, which take place at 1.00 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. on the lawns in front of the Manor house on the following dates... 27th-28th July Weekends in August 3rd/4th, 10th/11th, 17th/18th, 24th-26th and 31st Sunday 1st September
Find out more »Oxford Piano Festival: Steven Osborne Piano Recital
SCHUBERT Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960 MESSIAEN Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, Nos 1, 8, 14, 19, 10 Not much can follow Schubert’s late piano sonatas. But after all the inwardness and fragility of the Sonata in B flat, Steven Osborne continues his festival debut by marking 75 years since the publication of a true one-off: Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus. For the festival’s final recital, Osborne – who was invited to study the work with…
Find out more »Oxford Proms – Maki Sekiya in Hall of Fame Favourites
Egmont Overture, Romance in F Beethoven Finzi 5 Bagatelles for Clarinet &Strings Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 Maki Sekiya - piano Catriona Scott - clarinet Edmund Jones - violin Oxford Proms Orchestra - conductor Catherine Underwood The main work in our programme is the Piano Concerto No 2 by Shostakovich, a gloriously free, wistful creation - particularly in the famous second movement, which guarantees the whole work’s enduring popularity. We are delighted to welcome Japanese virtuoso…
Find out more »Garden Day with Terry Walton
We are honoured to welcome Terry Walton back to Belmond Le Manoir for another inspiring summers gardening day. Veteran allotment holder and BBC Radio 2 garden expert, Terry has had a passion for “growing” since his childhood and loves nothing more than sharing his considerable experience with others. Join us as together we tour the 11 gardens and orchards of Belmond Le Manoir and pick up a few tips and secrets from our own garden team and Terry himself. Enjoy…
Find out more »Oxford Proms – The Best of Mozart
Oxford Proms Orchestra Lucy Downer (clarinet) Maki Sekiya (piano) Catherine Underwood (conductor) Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon HWV 67 - George Frideric Handel Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A K 622 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Capela dos Ossos - Tim Perkins Concerto for piano and orchestra No 21 in C K 467 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Our proms programme includes 2 of Mozart’s iconic creations, a premiere, and a popular opener by Handel. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21, written in 1785, when he was only twenty-nine, just six years before…
Find out more »October 2019
Jimeoin: Ramble On!
Superb world-class stand-up from the Irishman from Australia acclaimed worldwide as one of live comedy’s true masters as Jimeoin brings his brilliantly observed, ever-evolving and hilarious comedy to The North Wall for one night only as part of his latest smash-hit tour. Jimeoin is internationally acclaimed and his shows sell out across the UK, Europe, USA and of course Australia. Hailed as a genuine “fair dinkum” stand-up alumni, don’t miss your chance to see this award-winning star of TV shows…
Find out more »December 2019
Oxford Bach Soloists: Magnificat – Cantatas for Christmas
Bach’s first Christmas in Leipzig comes with an explosion of festive music. After Advent’s ‘tempus clausum’ (closed period), Bach laid on nine major pieces for his singers and instrumentalists to master, including the Magnificat in E flat major, more commonly heard in its later D major version. First performed on Christmas Day in St Nicholas’s with his very grand Cantata 63, it was repeated on St Stephen’s Day (26 Dec) in St Thomas’s. On the Third Day of Christmas Bach…
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